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4 unusual facts about Gaucher


Anne Begg

Begg has been a wheelchair user since 1984 as she lives with the degenerative Gaucher's disease.

Aymer of Angoulême

She thereafter retired from public life to her estate at La Ferté-Gaucher, where she was living as late as July 1215, when she issued a charter at Provins using the title Countess of Angoulême.

Kifunensine

In the lysosomal storage disorders Gaucher’s and Tay-Sachs disease, endoplasmic reticulum-associated degradation (ERAD) prevents the native folding of mutated lysosomal enzymes in a patient’s fibroblasts.

Philippe Gaucher

Gaucher is remembered for his description of the disorder that was to become known as Gaucher's disease.


Elias Gaucher

Elias Gaucher was a prolific printer and publisher of clandestine erotica who worked out of the Malakoff and Vanves communes in the southwestern suburbs of Paris, France, about 3 miles from the centre of the City.

However, in his Memoirs of Montparnasse, which is set in the late 1920s, the Canadian poet John Glassco tells of having a book called Contes en crinoline published by a 'monsieur Gaucher,' which raises the possibility that Gaucher was in business for longer than has been previously thought.

Guy Gaucher

Guy Gaucher, born 5 March 1930, Tournan-en-Brie, is a French Catholic Discalced Carmelite religious.

Louis-Jacques Cathelin

He engraved some excellent small portraits of historical personages, literary men, and artists; and, although his work was singularly unequal, he may be classed with Le Mire, Ficquet, Gaucher, and other engravers of the 18th century, who were distinguished by the skill and

Roscoe Brady

Dr. Brady and his colleagues identified the enzymatic defects in Gaucher disease (3.4), Niemann-Pick disease (5), Fabry disease (6) and the specific metabolic abnormality in Tay-Sachs disease (7,8).


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